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I can’t seem to get the beauty of Tokyo off my mind.
Finding paradise in the streets of Japan.
Never coming home. Staying in Osaka forever.
Best friends who explore Japan together, stay together.
Kiss me under the cherry blossoms.
Sushi and sight-seeing, please!
Happiness is going on a sushi date in Japan.
Be the girl who decided to go to Japan and check something off her bucket list.
The sushi is calling, so I need to go.
Having the time of my life in Japan.
Japanese Proverbs
案ずるより産むが易しい。- Giving birth to a baby is easier than worrying about it. Meaning: Fear is greater than the danger, or try is sometimes easier than expected.
悪妻は百年の不作 – A bad wife spells a hundred years of bad harvest. Meaning: A bad wife is a ruin of her husband.
虎穴に入らずんば虎子を得ず。- If you do not enter the tiger’s cave, you will not catch its cub. Meaning: We risked nothing, won nothing. / You can’t do anything without risking.
瓜田李下 – Melon field, under a plum tree. Meaning: Enter a melon field, stand under a plum tree (this behavior causes a misunderstanding that you want to steal these fruits); implying that you must avoid actions that might be taken in bad faith.
井の中の蛙大海を知らず。- The frog in the well doesn’t know the big sea. Meaning: People are content to judge things based on their own narrow experience, never knowing about the outside world.
継続は力なり。- Continuing something is strength. Meaning: Don’t give up. Just by continuing to hold on, you will discover strength and power. Continuing after failure is a special strength. Perseverance is strength.
出る杭は打たれる。- The peg that sticks out is hammered. Meaning: Don’t turn up the tide / make an effort where it will be most beneficial / perfection breeds envy and / or hostility / it’s better to obey than stick out.
竜頭蛇尾 – dragon, head, snake, tail. Meaning: The beginning is like a dragon’s head, great and majestic, and the ending is like a snake’s tail, tiny and pitiful.
出る杭は打たれる。- the sticking out stake is hammered. Meaning: Don’t turn up the tide / make an effort where it will be most beneficial / perfection breeds envy and / or hostility / it’s better to obey than stick out.
猫に鰹節 – fish to the cat. Meaning: A situation where you cannot lose your vigilance (because the cat cannot resist stealing your fish).
Famous Japan Quotes
“When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature – this very unique to japan.” – Tadao Ando
“In Japanese culture, there is a belief that god is everywhere – in mountains, trees, rocks, even in our sympathy for robots or hello kitty toys.” – Ryuichi Sakamoto
“Japan’s very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don’t think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that’s already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor.” – Steve Jobs
“Japan learned from the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that the tragedy wrought by nuclear weapons must never be repeated and that humanity and nuclear weapons cannot coexist.” – Daisaku Ikeda
“The whole of japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people…. The Japanese people are… simply a mode of style, an exquisite fancy of art.” – Oscar Wilde
“It is useless to even try to answer the question I’ve been asked at least once a week over the past three years: ‘okay, which are, hands down, the three best restaurants in Tokyo?’… asking this question about Tokyo is like asking which three websites are the best on the internet.” – Jonas Cramby
“If you go to japan, you have to take the train and go visit different capital cities. Just sticking to one city would be a shame, considering how easy it is to get around. Tokyo, Osaka, and Kyoto all have different vibes and sights.” – Ronny Chieng
“Japan learned from the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that the tragedy wrought by nuclear weapons must never be repeated and that humanity and nuclear weapons cannot coexist.” – Daisaku Ikeda
“Japan is very cosmopolitan – it values its origins, but a world view hovers above this narrow perspective. The interest of the Japanese in their folk culture is transcendental.” – F. Sionil Jose
“I often look ridiculous in Japan. There’s really no way to eat in japan, particularly Kaiseki in a traditional Ryokan, without offending the Japanese horribly. Every gesture, every movement is just so atrociously wrong, and the more i try, the more hilarious it is.” – Anthony Bourdain
Japanese Love Quotes
私はあなたが最初にデート、キスした人、あるいは最初の恋人じゃないかもしれませんが、あなたの最後の人になりたいです。I may not be your first date, kiss, or love, but I want to be your last
私が人生において正しいことをしたならば、それは私のハートをあなたにあげた時です。If I did anything right in my life, it was when I gave my heart to you.
私はあなたを見つけたので、楽園は要りません。私にはあなたがいるので、夢は要りません。I don’t need paradise because I found you. I don’t need dreams because I have you.
私は今よりもあなたを愛することができないと誓います。もう、未来のことがわかっています。I swear I couldn’t love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow.
愛は風のよう、あなたはそれを見ることはできませんが、それを感じることができます。Love is like the wind, you can’t see it, but you can feel it.
Japan Travel Quotes
“I love Tokyo. If I had to eat only in one city for the rest of my life, Tokyo would be it. Most chefs I know would agree with me.” – Anthony Bourdain
“If Japan is enigmatic, then Tokyo is the heart of that riddle, its rhythm and essence so utterly alluring that it demands to be explored. It has a depth that keeps travellers in a constant state of rapture and delight. Whatever your vice, Tokyo has you covered.” – Michael Ryan
“There are so many more people in Tokyo than in New York, but it’s pristine. It’s so organized, and yet the address system is in complete chaos.” – Nick Wooster
“I always had a sense that I would fall in love with Tokyo. In retrospect I guess it’s not that surprising. I was of the generation that had grown up in the ’80s when Japan was ascendant (born aloft by a bubble whose burst crippled its economy for decades), and I’d fed on a steady diet of anime and samurai films.” – Junot Diaz
“Tokyo – still – offers the most tightly integrated infrastructure, where smooth, technology-driven experiences take place when engaging in everyday actions, such as verifying personal identity, paying for goods, and buying tickets”- Jan Chipchase
Japan Sayings
十人十色 – “Ten men, ten colors” Meaning: Like “different blows for different people.” People have different tastes and preferences – and that’s okay.
我田引水 – “Pulling water to my own rice paddy”. Meaning: Do something for your own benefit.
悪 因 悪 果 – “The cause of evil, the consequence of evil”. Meaning: Another iteration of “what you sow is what you reap.” This one is a little more specific and almost suggests a karmic outcome.
見ぬが花 – “Not seeing is a flower.” Meaning: In Japan, flowers can symbolize imagination, beauty and sometimes politeness. In this case, the idiom means: “Reality cannot compete with imagination.”
美人薄命 – “Beautiful person, thin life”. Meaning: This is more superstition than anything else, it actually means that “a beautiful woman is destined to die young”, but more like “beauty disappears.”
馬鹿は死ななきゃ治らない。- “Unless an idiot dies, he won’t be cured.” Meaning: This Japanese phrase is a harsh way of saying, “Only death will cure a fool.” Or maybe, “You can’t fix stupid.”
弱肉強食 – “The weak are meat; the strong eat.” Meaning: It’s pretty obvious, which means something like “survival of the fittest.
海 千山 千 – “Ocean a thousand, mountain a thousand” Meaning: A reference to a cunning old fox, one who has seen everything and therefore can cope with any situation, usually with the help of cunning.
一 期 一 会 – “One life, one collision” Meaning: each collision is a meeting that happens only once in a lifetime. Sometimes used as a reminder to cherish every moment because you will only experience it once.
異文 同心 – “Different body, same mind.” Meaning: Refers to soul mates or like-minded people, which is a bit like calling someone “a brother from another mother.”
Japanese Philosophy Quotes
“I do think that japan will be one of the nations that have equality, and that, too, will serve as an example for other Asian nations.” – George Takei
If a problem can be solved, then it’s not worth worrying about. If it can’t be solved, then it’s useless to worry about it.
It is better to be the enemy of a good person than the friend of a bad one.- Unknown
There has never been a great individual who did not have ordinary people at their side.- Unknown
He who drinks does not know the dangers of wine; he who doesn’t drink does not know its benefits. – Unknown
Ask a question and you feel shame for a moment. Not asking and not knowing means you will feel shame for your whole life.
Excessive honesty often borders on stupidity. – Unknown
Quotes About Japan Beauty
“Japan is the most intoxicating place for me. The Japanese culture fascinates me: the food, the dress, the manners and the traditions. It’s the travel experience that has moved me the most.” – Roman Coppola
“If you took the city of Tokyo and turned it upside down and shook it you would be amazed at the animals that fall out: badgers, wolves, boa constrictors, crocodiles, ostriches, baboons, capybaras, wild boars, leopards, manatees, ruminants, in untold numbers. There is no doubt in my mind that that feral giraffes and feral hippos have been living in Tokyo for generations without seeing a soul.” – Yann Martel
“No other capital has been devastated so often and so spectacularly in any national cinema as Tokyo, from the gleeful abandon wrought by Godzilla to the post-apocalyptic nightmares of Otomo Katsuhiro’s animated epic, Akira.” – Ian Luna
“Wabi-sabi: in traditional Japanese aesthetics, Wabi-Sabi is a world view centered on the acceptance of transience and imperfection. The aesthetic is sometimes described as one of beauty that is “imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete”.
“Japan is very cosmopolitan – it values its origins, but a world view hovers above this narrow perspective. The interest of the Japanese in their folk culture is transcendental.” – F. Sionil Jose
Tokyo Quotes And Captions
“Here in tokyo they’re not just hard working but almost violently cheerful. Down at the peacock, the change flows like tap water. The women behind the registers bow to you, and i don’t mean that they lower their heads a little, the way you might if passing someone on the street. These cashiers press their hands together and bend from the waist. Then they say what sounds to me like “we, the people of this store, worship you as we might a god.” – David Seders
“Living right in the heart of Tokyo itself is quite like living in the mountains – in the midst of so many people, one hardly sees anyone.” ― Yūko Tsushima
“Tokyo was a place you could quite happily exist alone and be self-contained. It seemed to promise that it was better to be by yourself.” ― Olivia Sudjic
“Japan, not only a mega-busy city that thrives on electronics and efficiency, actually has an almost sacred appreciation of nature. One must travel outside of Tokyo to truly experience the ‘old Japan’ and more importantly feel these aspects of Japanese culture.” – Apolo Ohno
“If Japan is enigmatic, then Tokyo is the heart of that riddle, its rhythm and essence so utterly alluring that it demands to be explored. It has a depth that keeps travellers in a constant state of rapture and delight. Whatever your vice, Tokyo has you covered.” – Michael Ryan
“I tell you, Heaven is a real, literal, physical place, a city as material, as physical, as literal as Chicago or London or New York or Tokyo.” – John R. Rice
“Wandering in a smart Tokyo neighbourhood is like wandering in a box of Quality Street: everything is different, everything tastes the same.” – Donald Richie
“Tokyo was an origami city folded over and over until something was made of virtually nothing.” – Christopher Barzak
“Tokyo – still – offers the most tightly integrated infrastructure, where smooth, technology-driven experiences take place when engaging in everyday actions, such as verifying personal identity, paying for goods, and buying tickets.” – Unknown
Kyoto Quotes
“Japan is the most intoxicating place for me. In Kyoto, there’s an inn called the Tawaraya which is quite extraordinary. The Japanese culture fascinates me: the food, the dress, the manners and the traditions. It’s the travel experience that has moved me the most.” – Roman Coppola
“Tokyo may have more money and Kyoto more culture; Nara may have more history and Kobe more style. But Osaka has the biggest heart.” – Vikas Swarup
“I own a home in Kyoto, Japan actually on the temple on grounds in Nanzenji that is going to become a Japanese art museum.” — Larry Ellison
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Japanese Wisdom Quotes
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
A single arrow is easily broken, but not ten in a bundle.
When a character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.
Life is for one generation; a good name is forever.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
Forgiving the unrepentant is like drawing pictures on water.
Japanese Food Quotes
“I was not prepared for the feel of the noodles in my mouth, or the purity of the taste. I had been in japan for almost a month, but i had never experienced anything like this. The noodles quivered as if they were alive, and leapt into my mouth where they vibrated as if playing inaudible music.” – Ruth Reichl
“If I were trapped in one city and had to eat one nation’s cuisine for the rest of my life, I would not mind eating Japanese. I adore Japanese food. I love it.” – Anthony Bourdain
“A lot of people think Japanese food is difficult, a lot of work. But you don’t have to buy the knife I have. You don’t have to train as long as I have. You can do my cooking in your kitchen.” – Masaharu Morimoto
“Japanese food is very pretty and undoubtedly a suitable cuisine in Japan, which is largely populated by people of below average size. Hostesses hell-bent on serving such food to occidentals would be well advised to supplement it with something more substantial and to keep in mind that almost everybody likes french fries.” – Fran Leibowitz
“I love Chinese food, like steamed dim sum, and I can have noodles morning, noon and night, hot or cold. I like food that’s very simple on the digestive system – I tend to keep it light. I love Japanese food too – sushi, sashimi and miso soup.” – Shilpa Shetty
“It is useless to even try to answer the question I’ve been asked at least once a week over the past three years: ‘Okay, which are, hands down, the three best restaurants in Tokyo?’ Asking this question about Tokyo is like asking which three websites are the best on the internet.” – Cambay
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